Wives of missing Khumbong duo plead to Govt
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 18 2023:
The wives of Atom Samarendra and Yumkha-ibam Kirankumar, both of Khumbong Bazar, who have been missing since May 6, have appealed to the state government to help locate whereabouts of their hus-bands.
Addressing a press meet at Manipur Press Club here Thursday , Samarendra's wife Atom Kabita recounted that on May 6 around 11 am, her husband left home with Kirankumar to meet a friend.
However, 13 days have passed since both of them have gone missing though top officials and security forces are work-ing to locate them.
Appealing for their safe release if they have been ab-ducted, Kabita said local MLA and minister Dr Sapam Ranjan has also been taking a key role.
She then urged the chief min-ister to be more pragmatic on the matter and help find their whereabouts.
Kabita further said that on tracking their movement through the phone, their last location was at Sangaithel but they could not be found in the area.
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On tracking the next morning, their location showed up at Eigya Chakshang in Kongba Road and later at Khamnam Leirak.
Stating that her husband Samarendra like working for the people and had served as a sub-editor in The Sangai Express, Kabita said that he would have entered San-gaithel not to attack but to help the locals.
She herself is the general secretary at IWC, Khumbong.
During the pan-demic, her husband worked together with Dr Yaikhomba to distribute relief materials and organise health check-ups, she recalled.
Kabita continued that Sa-marendra did not state his exact destination.
A friend of his (Samarendra) had phoned to enquire whether he reached home, while informing that he had left another friend's house around 1pm.The friend called again at 2.30 pm wherein Samarendra informed that he was at Iroishemba.
Another call was made around 4.20 pm, where Samarendra informed that he was at Sangaithel Olympian Park.
Afterwards his and his friend's phone was switched off.
At about 7 pm, a missing report was filed at Patsoi PS and search operation conducted the next day.
Un-fortunately, both her husband and his friend's whereabouts remain unknown till date, she conveyed.
Yumkhaibam Kirankumar's wife Yumkhaibam Basanti also stated to newspersons that her husband had left home on May 6 and has been missing since then.
She then appealed to the person(s) concerned, if they had abducted her husband, to release him safely.